To be near unto God - pagina 484
tone-scale
of
the
conscience,
susceptibility
to
emotions and sensations, education, environment,
stamp upon our whole spiritual being. One is after And in this manner, and another after that. connection with this the Holy Spirit divides his spiritual gifts, without mistake, and not as we would have it, or as another would suggest, but business, all this together puts a peculiar
even as he
wills. Spiritual uniformity after a As God pattern is here unthinkable. clothes the lilies of the field differently, so he weaves an own spiritual garment for each one of
given
Uniformity must be discarded, and our spiritual robe must unfold itself singly before
his children.
God and men. As every precious stone has a light of its own, and no jasper can be an emerald, so in one's heart the diamond of childship must sparkle with its own brightness. Then only will the secret walk with God be free, and rich, and broad, for only so do we appear before our God and Father in the form, in the spiritual robe, and with the which he has given his children. near unto God is not going in with the crowd, but it is the approach to God in this own, this particular, this personal, this peculiar way, which God has appointed for us. A mother knows each of her children by their own voice, even when she does not see them; and so does our Father in heaven know each of his children by their own voice, which he draws out from spiritual jewels,
To draw
the soul. 480
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